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Episode 77 - PREVIEW FRIDAY: West Ham on the horizon!
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Daily Brighton – Joe and Bless give the fans a preview of Brighton's away fixture at West Ham?
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Introduction and Preview Friday
00:00:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hello and welcome to the Daily Brighton podcast brought to you by the Global Sports Podcast Network. It is a preview Friday. It's an early recording, but lessons bunked off work. I'm currently
El Sakiko Match Teasers and Banter
00:00:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
unemployed. sir but we are available to do this early doors um and you never guess what we are about to we're about to preview el sakiko apparently Lopategi and Herzler are not having the best of times currently of course I'm joking Herzler shouldn't be sat Lopategi on the other hand I'm not sure ah bless how are you today mate
00:00:48
blessings
Yeah, good. Yeah, good good to be here. I'm not sure about the intro, but we're here now. So yeah, let's just do this.
00:00:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
ah yeah ah they Oh, we're trying to get
Podcast Segments Overview
00:01:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
him in trouble. Anyway, in segment one, we're just going to be doing a little bit of an overview. We have got all the status stacks on the right here. In segment two, we'll be talking a little bit about West Ham. um If you listen to the crossover on Thursday, then you'll sort of get the very depressing thoughts about their season so far. And in segment three, we'll be talking about the seagulls and how we can actually win a game for once. That would be absolutely
West Ham's Inconsistency: An Opportunity?
00:01:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
lovely. bless
00:01:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
What are your just overall overall feeders going into the game?
00:01:31
blessings
Um, yeah, I think it's another big, big game. I'm expecting us to get, um, a point in worst case scenario, but I think, I think we should be looking at getting some points against these. I mean, they're.
00:01:45
blessings
They have got the players, but they're formed this season. It's just not been consistent. um They've not really got a playing style or identity. And I think that um we can really take, if we come out on the front foot, we can really take control of the game and actually go over the line. um But with that being said, obviously they're at home and, you know, they're still a good team. Bowen's still a good footballer.
00:02:14
blessings
like anything can happen, they're just a bit unpredictable.
Performance Comparisons and Betting Insights
00:02:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
ah hundred percent It's funny you say about unpredictability because um the notes that I have written on the side here, which obviously the listeners and viewers can't see, um they're from a website called footystats.org, which I actually have discovered that is mainly, it also has like a whole betting segment, if there is any betters who are listening.
00:02:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
um It's actually 100% risk is what they've worked out to be to bet on West Ham because you literally just never know what is going to happen. So it's like, it literally just says 100% risk. You literally never know. It could be a loss or a draw and basically don't bet on it unless you're a psycho.
00:02:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
Anyway, I'm going to just get into some stats quickly. Both teams, Brighton are in worse form than West Ham. We haven't won in five, I think now.
Injury Updates and Key Players
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Global Sports Podcast Network
West Ham have won two in their last five with two losses on a draw.
00:03:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
ah is It is going to be a tough game, as you um as you said. we have actually It's actually quite a decent fixture for us in the sort of last five games. We've won three times, drawn once, which was the last game, and um also they've won one as well.
00:03:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
um But in terms of just a little bit of admin, in terms of who's out. ah Well, Beck, I think is not going to be making it. Cardio Glue won't be making it. Veltman should be back, I believe. I think he's passed the fitness test. Matt O'Reilly had a knock. I think he's fine. um On their end, Carlos Soler's suspended. Tadebo's injured. And of course, Antonio's out.
00:03:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
ah for reasons that everyone knows. Again, speedy recovery for Macau.
Significance of Upcoming Match
00:04:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
But I just want to sort of get your thoughts here. Obviously, we've you you do did say that it was going to be a big game, but how important is this for Hertzler now and how important is this game for our season now to sort of switch this around, coming literally up to what I mean? As we're filming this, we are six days away from Christmas. so
00:04:22
blessings
Yeah, this is a very important period for us. And although we have got players out, um it we we need a big performance. I think first and foremost performance, obviously results are the most important thing, but we need to get an actual good performance.
00:04:36
blessings
Because I think some even the drawers I've answered was a terrible performance, in my opinion.
00:04:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:04:42
blessings
like We've got a point, but just didn't play well.
Performance Criticism and Fan Support
00:04:45
blessings
um I think first and foremost, he'll look at performance and make sure that it is a high level performance. like if we are going to lose, like, you know, don't lose.
00:04:53
blessings
and But, by yeah, in the Palace, that's a perfect way to put it.
00:04:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
In the polished way.
00:04:59
blessings
Don't lose in the Palace way. Actually, you'd be like, oh wow, West Ham came out of nowhere. They actually played all right. um So it's a massive, massive game. I think it's a big game for them as well.
00:05:10
blessings
um There's ah obviously lots of talks of just West Ham and themselves as well, how they've sort of got their recruitment completely wrong.
00:05:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
Mm hmm.
00:05:19
blessings
um they haven't got it right. And then the less traditional Premier League clubs like Brighton, Brentford and Bournemouth, they're flying with sort of coaches who came in a bit unknown.
00:05:32
blessings
So it's like, I think it's a big game for them in terms of that. um The gap is growing between those clubs as well, I think.
00:05:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah Yeah, I mean, they are sat in 15th, I believe, and I think we are in fifth. So it is, of there's I mean, that's what, 10 gaps swing right out there. So ah the the thing is, I don't want to be too, obviously, I shouldn't be confident regardless because we're actually in terrible form. We generally are in terrible form. Also, we're getting cussed out on social media, um mainly because we were cussing them out and then it basically come back to bite us in the ass.
Expectations and Resilience Against West Ham
00:06:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
ah ah People are saying that we're um we took European positions for granted, ah etc. And ah ah this time I think I can't and be casting out any of their players because it normally tends to mean that. I mean, we we were talking a bit of trash about Ismail Asar.
00:06:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
and he's he's given us that work and the fans on social media not bright fans by the way where are you by the way can you maybe give us a backup here because we're literally fighting for our lives in the comment section um but like I don't want to say anything too mad. I expect us to win this game they basically just of the fact that I feel like backs up against the wall. We're going to a good team, in my opinion, a good team who've just got it wrong. And we're going to their place and it seems like we actually shouldn't win, which makes me believe that we'll win the game.
Performance Issues and Lineup Considerations
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Global Sports Podcast Network
Um, to be fair, that is actually just based off what I've seen so far this season. I feel like when the level goes up, apart from palace, when the level goes up, I think our level normally goes up.
00:07:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
Whereas if the team we're playing, this is like a, it in terms of like the level of the game and sort of like the pace of the game, if that goes down, I feel like our performance drops as well.
00:07:23
blessings
Are you know could you're not concerned that we're missing we're still missing quite a lot of our players, ah ah key key players?
00:07:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
Um,
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Global Sports Podcast Network
um Yeah, the one that I'm actually, and I'm not even just saying this now, just because this is coming from like performances I've seen. Well, Beck has actually been a massive miss in terms of sort of getting the best out of Jal Pedro because him playing in the nine, I don't think has benefited us very much. um And you, both of the, so Evan Ferguson is is obviously, ah sorry.
00:07:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
ever focusing is obviously an outright but i mean can he be trusted to play 90 minutes and then Jal Pedro's not and Ritter's not so it says it's just gonna lead to I think more sort of mixing and matching and well if you get the the forward line right then we can actually be a bit of a danger. And even if we sort of have to defend a lot, we know that we have that sort of like ability of firepower to score.
Final Thoughts and Predictions
00:08:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
But I feel like without Wellbeck sort of gluing it all together, it's not really working. um But I mean, it is a very small sample size. He's only missed like two, three games. sir But it is going to be a big miss having him out. But I still, I still need to have a bit of faith because it has been so bleak recently. So
00:08:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, ah um' um I'm still hoping that we can turn this around now because it's getting a bit, these podcasts are getting a bit, we're getting cooked online and I can't ah can't be having this at all.
00:08:54
blessings
it's It's tough, it's tough.
00:08:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
It is tough, mate. We literally have about 100 Crystal Palace fans in the comments of one of our videos just gone.
00:09:02
blessings
All I see is just eagles.
00:09:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
sir ah Yeah, just eagles everywhere, man.
00:09:04
blessings
okay
00:09:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
They're not even selling anything. They're just putting eagles. That's it.
00:09:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
Anyway, we're going to go through a quick ad break and when we come back, we are going to speak a little bit more about the irons. So we will see you on the flip side.
00:09:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
And we are back for segment two of the Daily Brighton podcast preview of the West Ham game. I'm obviously joined by Blessers Chabamba, ah full government name, you know, why not?
00:10:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
um ah So, West Ham, I'm just going to throw something out there at you to be fair. What, just quickly, what are your sort of overall thoughts on them this season? um They're actually a team that I haven't really watched much of. And when I have watched them, it hasn't been massively interesting.
00:10:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
um but what are your sort of thoughts on the just portugal and vibes mate
00:10:22
blessings
Yeah, it's probably some of the things we've already spoken about, like in terms of ah the manager they brought in, I thought the brand of football would be so much better than what it is. I can't really remember what Lopategi played like at Wolves, but I just remember that being a bit a difficult job because Yeah, they just don't really yeah just didn't really work out there. But what I was expecting is definitely a ah clear brand of football, because when they got rid of Moyes, that's literally the reason they wanted to get rid of him, is because they wanted to play a more attractive brand of football. So I was like, OK, they've got a ah manager with a high pedigree. like He's obviously sold the dream to get this job, to being like, oh yeah, this is how I want this to play. um He's got a one or two players.
00:11:12
blessings
he wanted in as well. So I was really expecting it to work, especially with like, you've already got some of the players there, like some superstars in Packeter, Bowens, very good.
00:11:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
I could say.
00:11:25
blessings
It's Packeter, isn't it?
00:11:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
but paketa
00:11:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
so but's talking about packet on the podcast
00:11:36
blessings
oh my word. Tough crowd.
00:11:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
fuck its up
00:11:39
blessings
this is This is why I'm getting cooked in the comments.
00:11:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah cause he hear but
00:11:42
blessings
You're not meant to highlight it.
00:11:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
most said packard set ma jesus described that's luck as that made i packe a mixing of
00:11:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
Oh God, yeah anyway, sorry continue your point
00:11:53
blessings
Anyway, yeah they've yeah, they've got some good players. um So I really felt like that it could work for them. But yeah, they just haven't really been able to like kick on. um I'm surprised Somerville doesn't get the minutes he does.
00:12:07
blessings
um I watched them against Bournemouth, not really that entertaining. I think Bournemouth should have won the game as well. So, yeah, no real bright spots.
00:12:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
It was a last minute penalty, wasn't it? From Packett or whatever his name is.
00:12:18
blessings
Yeah.
00:12:20
blessings
nothing
00:12:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
sir
00:12:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
um yeah One thing I actually did want to touch on, to be fair, um which is completely strays away from the notes I've written down. We spoke with the Las yesterday, the West Ham Las yesterday, and we were sort of talking about the transfer window. And I did want to ask them about it because I feel like a lot of people have looked at the transfer window before a ball's been kicked this season and gone, they've had a sick transfer window.
00:12:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
I, on the other hand, completely disagree. I don't think that this is a sick transfer window. a like it' It's okay, but ah as a west if I was a West Ham fan, I probably wouldn't be like, oh my God, Aaron Wambasaka.
00:13:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
You know what I mean? like i know he's been I know he's been really good. I know he has been really good. But like I mean, I'm just going to go through them now. So Kilman at 47 million.
00:13:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
um He's 27, so he's still got a good five years and then probably four, three, four years. Somerville for um around 30 mil. Falkberg for 27 mil. He's 31.
00:13:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
Luis Guilherme who I don't think we've seen at all for 23 million from Palmeiras and Juan Bassaca for 17 million Guido Rodriguez, he's 30, that was a free transfer. Wes Frodringham literally doesn't count, free transfer. um Apparently Mahamadou Kante, I don't know who that is but he's there and then Tadebo apparently is alone, Carlos Soler is alone and then all of the other ones have basically gone out like have come back on loan and probably left the club but I don't know like I don't know about you mate but I just don't think that that's like a crazy transfer window it's a lot of players and there is like names in there who are really well known but I feel like the fact that they're well known names like has sort of glazed over the fact that
00:14:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
it's actually not really that great. If you're going to, if you want to, you touched on it in the crossover, you said, oh well, if you want to play sort of like that build up sort of style of play, then Wabasaka's One Biscuits isn't going to be the guy.
00:14:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
Do you know what I mean? And they were saying, oh, he's been great going forward.
00:14:32
blessings
You got unleashed, apparently.
00:14:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, he's been great going forward. Sort of like, yeah, he got a leash, right? I don't know how that's a thing, mate. You didn't know you could unleash Wabasaka. But like, like, he's not, you said that he's not good on the ball. He's not good on the ball. He actually just isn't good on the ball. He might be good at running forward, but he's not good on the ball. He's not a good pass on the ball. He's not, he's not Trent. Do you know what I mean? Like he's not Kevin De Bruyne playing him right back. Do you know what I mean? So, and like Falkberg, where's he? Where is Falkberg?
00:15:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
Where's he been? like chris Somerville, you just said, I'm surprised he's not played as much. Where is he? Tadeba, apparently, he's been OK, but i mean their defens their defensive stats, i mean they've conceded 29 goals.
00:15:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
and what with Is there 16 games in now? or Yeah, 16 games in.
00:15:17
blessings
Yeah.
00:15:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
They've conceded 29 goals. Kilman, I mean, people probably people have been singing his praises I think he's alright like he's decent he's okay he's decent he's not he's not this crazy center back like that everyone makes out to be sort of thing when you're getting peppered at wolves it's gonna look decent when you you've had a 19 defensive headers this is where we're now gonna get absolutely destroyed by all of these man um But anyway, I just wanted to sort of put my sort of my thoughts about the transfer and doing because I feel like it's just a bit fugazi. The fact that they've spent a lot of money and ah they've actually got in some, some mid, some mid players in there.
00:16:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
um But, ah who, yeah obviously Antonio we know about the sort of situation with him, we don't really want to touch on that very much, but obviously that does leave a space down in the middle of the park. Are we expecting to be seeing a front three of like Bowen, Kudos and Somerville? Or what are you expecting? It's a folk rug, I don't even think it's injured, I think he's actually available. So are we going to be seeing him? How is he going to handle um the old man dunk?
00:16:30
blessings
Yeah, I think Fulcrum's a good player and I really like him to be fair, but I just think he may not be suited for the Premier League. It's just, I don't know what it is.
00:16:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hmm.
00:16:39
blessings
It just seems a little bit too fast for him. I can't put my finger on it, but it just doesn't.
00:16:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think you're right there, yeah.
00:16:45
blessings
um Whereas in the Bundesliga, he looked like potent in the box, anything in the box he was. he was
00:16:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hoovering up, mate.
00:16:54
blessings
he was He was there. He's on the end of everything. But like yeah now you but most of the crosses I'm seeing, he's there or there abouts, but not quite there. So I think the front three that will cause our back four of the most problems will probably be Somerville, Boeing through the middle, just causing issues.
00:17:12
blessings
And yeah, running the channels, kudos on the other side.
00:17:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, running the channels.
00:17:17
blessings
Because I think what Dunk lacks is what Dunk would struggle um defend against as a player who's going to move into different spaces, a player who's going to twist and turn and make dunk, get off balance balance and then we're in trouble.
00:17:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:17:32
blessings
um Whereas if it's folk fulcrum, you know, our dunks like you would just hold him, follow him and it'll be more of a personal battle. But at least you know where he is. He's not going to twist you up and finesse it up.
00:17:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:17:46
blessings
He's just looking for headers and that that's probably a better suited for dunks.
00:17:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
oh
00:17:49
blessings
I'll be happy to see fulcrum start if they did want to do that.
00:17:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah yeah Yeah if you do want to do you know then obviously to knock yourself out mate honestly but ah ah the thing is is that I'm thinking to myself I'm like in terms of Lewis Dunk at the moment I feel like he could get twist up by folk ring at this point.
00:18:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
ah the
00:18:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
It is a peak, but I'm thinking that it has been so bad.
00:18:09
blessings
So I'll peek, that is.
00:18:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
like and and like ah I'm not sure. and so i My worry about this is that we're having chopping and changing at the back. And they they have such a level of fluidity, I think, in the front in the front line, especially if you have, like, Bowen and that.
00:18:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
And I can just imagine that it's not going to be great to have, say, for example, Bowen starts and then you've got Kudos on the right and um some of it on the left. Like, I can imagine that they could all just sort of interchange, like, whenever they want.
00:18:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
Kudos is very versatile.
00:18:48
blessings
Yeah.
00:18:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
Jared Bowen is quite versatile as well. but like my what I had the way I'm picturing it is that Lewis Dunne's gonna have to be chasing these man around and then at the like 80th minute Falkkrugg is just gonna just gonna turn up and just start throwing his whole body weight at headers in the box mate he's and like do you know like when the strike when the ball goes over the top of the striker and the striker turns around and he just sort of like runs to sort of like get in the airspace of the defender who's going to win the book Falkkrugg's not doing that mate Falkkrugg is challenging for everything mate
00:19:17
blessings
Oh yeah.
00:19:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
He doesn't even care where the header goes. Get the second ball, mate.
00:19:25
blessings
Yeah.
00:19:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
He's literally just going to be throwing his body right around Lewis. He might actually kill Lewis Dunke. I'm scared for Lewis Dunke at the moment. um Anyway, enough about that. ah In the last segment, we're going to be speaking about the mighty seagulls and sort of how we're going to get on, how we're going to be able to hurt this West Ham team after you hear from our partners at Zencaster.
00:20:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
And we are back for the final segment. It's the Brighton segment. Bless. How are we going to kill these men?
00:20:24
blessings
here
00:20:27
blessings
It's a tough one because I think, again, we're up against a team who's going to be super physical in midfield. So, I don't know, we need these wingers to really contribute and start, you know, getting past people and making a real, real big difference.
00:20:42
blessings
Because in midfield, it's going to be a really, really tough battle because that Alvarez, Sucek, very, very aggressive.
00:20:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
stephen pick yeah
00:20:54
blessings
Yeah, I was going to say it, but I couldn't remember how to say it.
00:20:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
but as ah when as When there's a yellow card on the line, mate, when he's let his family know WhatsApp that he needs to put a book in London, mate, he is clamping everyone, mate.
00:21:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
I won't be lying. But he also, you alright there, mate?
00:21:07
blessings
not Yes.
00:21:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, but ah for all the listeners, Blessers just found downstairs.
00:21:10
blessings
Drop my book.
00:21:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
He's all right there, I think. But I think that for someone like Paquetta, he's actually like, not only is he a very technical footballer, he's shown absolute glimpses of brilliance, but he also works like Like his life is dependent on it, mate.
00:21:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's crazy. So you are right. I think all of those free in midfield, they could cook us. But so what are you looking to see from the wingers then? Because you mentioned the wingers. You want to see them.
00:21:41
blessings
Yeah.
00:21:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
You want to see them cook.
00:21:43
blessings
Yeah. I think we we we desperately need them to cook.
00:21:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
We're hungry.
00:21:48
blessings
We are hungry. yeah i yeah we need Especially um on the right-hand side, whoever we put on that side needs to cook. I think Matoma, Wambisaka, that's going to be tight because obviously Wambisaka is a 1v1 demon.
00:22:04
blessings
So it's just a long day.
00:22:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:22:06
blessings
Let's just hope he gets it wrong or we get a pen or something because he like he likes to slide-zackling.
00:22:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
Oh yeah. He does.
00:22:11
blessings
Um, but yeah, we need, we need a lot of service from the wider areas.
00:22:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
He loves side tackling so much, man. I've never seen anyone like side tackling as much as him.
00:22:18
blessings
I want to see Evan Ferguson start as well.
00:22:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:22:21
blessings
Um, yeah, I think, yeah, we're petro in the number 10 position.
00:22:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
I hear it. With Pedro behind.
00:22:27
blessings
Um, I know I'm saying, I think NCSO deserves a, a, um, not a start maybe, but more minutes than they did against Palace. I came on at halftime, but maybe I'll start there.
00:22:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
Well.
00:22:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, we so we so who's playing?
00:22:39
blessings
Yeah.
00:22:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
Who's your front forward end in this game? To get maximum damage.
00:22:43
blessings
I'll maximum damage. Yeah, you just have to it's it's annoying because I trust these man, but also don't trust these man It's tough um I would go controversial, but I'll go for Jean Pedro just off the left um Don't try yeah, I think I'll drop them Toma
00:23:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
Okay. Well, I said I'm going to tell you more.
00:23:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
Oh my god.
00:23:09
blessings
I'll tell Jean Pedro, don't really bother with the 1v1 thing, but just play in the half space. I'll go and see so in the 10, and then I'll probably go...
00:23:21
blessings
Minté on the right.
00:23:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
if you have good ah if you yeah You can't have a router out there as well because that's literally just three tens running around.
00:23:28
blessings
Yeah, that's how I work, yeah.
00:23:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
us That's hella tense, mate. Can't just be like, because then whatever folks are up front, he's going to be thinking, what's going on?
00:23:37
blessings
I have a verb to that front.
00:23:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
What's going on, man? No one's got to the byline once this game, mate.
00:23:40
blessings
Yeah. No crosses in.
00:23:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
What's going on? No crosses in.
00:23:44
blessings
Everyone's just trying to cut it. Everyone's just doing that.
00:23:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, everyone's just know when they just move him, but they're not doing anything. It's just, I don't know. oh I want to see I feel like the best I'm actually the opposite to you. I feel like the best way to get at this team in terms of going forward is to actually stretch them. um So I would be I would be looking for.
00:24:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
Do you know what, I would actually, Matoma's been decent, but do you know what, I'd actually give him a rest and I'd try something different. I actually would like to see a Dinger on the left, Minte on the right, and then have then have Pedro in it, just because the I want them to just hug the, I know Matoma obviously hugs the touch line as well, but like, I just want it to be as wide as possible so, um in CSO can just sort of like get in or gel Pedro can just get into those sort of spaces and really link up with Ferguson.
00:24:20
blessings
Yeah that's fresh.
00:24:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
I don't, I feel like one thing that they might be very, um might be very like workmen like in midfield, but I don't think they're very mobile, the midfielders. So I feel like if you stretch them, it would take a long, a lot of time for them to sort of cover those gaps when they're needing. So say, for example, Estu Pignan is like sort of bombing down that left hand side. and And you've got a Dinger out there who's sort of more, he's more, he wants to cut in, but he also can go outside as well.
00:25:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
I feel like you're going to need to have another, you're going to need to have one of the um midfielders to sort of come over to help, but then I feel like it's going to open up loads of space. um So hopefully, that that's what I would do.
00:25:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
That's not what's going to happen. That's literally what happened. That definitely will happen. I don't think, Metomas are the only one who I basically know is going to be in the starting lineup almost every week.
00:25:26
blessings
Yeah, yeah Um
00:25:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
um So, but yeah, I just, I just want to see something ah in terms of the defence, bless. Is it time for my man to go? You know who I'm talking about.
00:25:40
blessings
um wow The issue is we haven't got, our replacement isn't much better. I think in a game like this, if if we do go with Eagle and it's Bowen up front, he's going to struggle dealing with that. He's going to struggle to step in at the right times, I think. Although he is he's aggressive and quick yeah and we're out-muscling, but I just think the timing of that, who who get dragged out of position,
00:26:13
blessings
and then that leaves space for other people to get in there. ah i i like Whichever one you play, you're risking something. um That's where we're at at the moment, I think.
00:26:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:26:23
blessings
So I think we'll see how this goes. like It will be an absolute unbelievable day for him if he sees fulcrum starting.
00:26:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah yeah yeah it's gonna be in front of you all the time yeah
00:26:35
blessings
Because that's his sound. You know where he is. But if it's blowing, it's going to be tough, yeah. I don't know. What do you think?
00:26:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
Um, I'm, I'm thinking more, yeah, I think ego actually come in, mate. I just, I just give him a bit of a rest, mate.
00:26:49
blessings
Yeah.
00:26:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
Give him a bit of a rest.
00:26:52
blessings
He's just come back.
00:26:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
Oh, yeah, I know. But like, just, no, I'm talking about a rest just from getting abuse all the time from like us, like not just not rest as in like physically.
00:26:58
blessings
oh
00:27:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
Um, but like, I just want to, I just want her to see like, oh, he goes there. Dunks time might be up. a little bit.
00:27:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
So maybe give Eagle, Eagle was good in the run of games that he played in. So like, I don't understand why you changed that. Um, I can't, I can't see either like past January time. I can't see either of them playing mate.
00:27:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
I reckon there'll be someone else in there by the time I reckon there'll be, I reckon one will come in who's young and one will come in who's got a bit more experience. I keep hearing, I'm hearing screen yarn mate. That's a mad shout.
00:27:35
blessings
That'd be mad, yeah.
00:27:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
That's a mad shout.
00:27:36
blessings
That's crazy.
00:27:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
I could get touched in this league, mate.
00:27:39
blessings
Where's your end to Milan?
00:27:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think so. He could get touched in this league, mate. Check how slow it is in Italy, mate.
00:27:44
blessings
Yeah.
00:27:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
No, he's going to see, Falk, Falk, Grog going to be running past him.
00:27:46
blessings
Back free tax as well.
00:27:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
Um, but yeah, I think I'd go for Veltman if he's back and if he can actually stop at 90. Um, Van Hecke, Igor and the stupid, you know, I think is what I'd go for. Um, anyway, we're coming to the end now.
00:28:00
blessings
Yeah.
00:28:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
Uh, just so the, um, the viewers have clarity on what we actually think score predictions.
00:28:10
blessings
um I am going to go for a 2-2 draw.
00:28:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
2-2 draw. I'm going to go for a 3-2 win again. This is actually, I'm actually predicting 3-2 on, uh, 3-2 Brighton on the normal pod rather than on the crossover where I always predict 3-2. Uh, it will come in again at some point. Uh, but yeah, I'm going 3-2. There will be no Danny Welbeck knee slide. So I'm going to have to go for a, um, I'm actually going to go Van Hecke goal, Van Hecke knee slide. You've heard it here first, mate.
00:28:44
blessings
<unk>nna get i'm gonna go for a dunk go
00:28:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah don't go well we'll see if pigs can fly as well at the same time won't anyway um so this is the last pod of the week and then uh unfortunately guys for you you are stuck with me for just me for a week blesses in Zambia um so if we have any Zambian fans go and hit them up ask for autographs all that stuff um Guerra is in Portugal um they're both going back to the motherland my motherland is
00:28:53
blessings
yeah
00:29:11
blessings
I'm gonna go for a dunk goal.
00:29:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
but I was about to literally back out where I live then.
00:29:20
blessings
Yeah, I was awfully sorry you got to say it. I was like, huh?
00:29:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
I was so close to saying it, I was so close to saying it. So yeah, it will be just me. um ah So um I will, ah you have the Joe Richardson guarantee that you'll get five podcasts next week, even though it's just me. Lemla again on about, I have it internet, I don't think Gary's nan has internet in our yard, so.
00:29:46
blessings
i feel
00:29:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
So yeah, ah thanks for listening. um Thanks for all of the comments mainly from Crystal Palace fans on the TikTok. We love to see that. I mean, it's all just bouncing it really. um Yeah. ah You know where to find us on all social media. It's in the show notes. um and We don't have our personal social medias linked, but you don't want to see our personal social medias anyway. so um We will see you on Monday when I will give you my reaction, just my reaction to the game.
00:30:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
I might even throw in some voicemotes from the lads in there as well, just to get their sort of thoughts as well.
00:30:19
blessings
Ah, yeah.
00:30:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
All right, so anyway, in the meantime, farewell, enjoy the weekend and Merry Christmas.